TS: "Extras" vs. "The Office". (Ricky Gervais.the man and the legend.)

Can't remember which is the thread for properly hating on Gervais, but that there appearance on the Diana tribute thing = OMG CRINGE GET OFF MY TELLY GO AWAY YOU ARE THE WORST PERSON EVER (which is some going at a tribute to Princess Diana)

Ban Zeno.

dom passantino: harsh but fair

I can't decide whether the funniest person at that Di gig was Kanye for doing "Gold Digger" or Bryan Ferry for doing "Let's Stick Together".

hahahaa wait Kanye really played Gold Digger at a Di tribute? That makes up for everything annoying about him.

Yeah, I had huge "WTF you can't do that" giggles at "Let's Stick Together"

Best unintentionally hilarious bit - P. Diddy

When even David Brent can't do the David Brent Dance then this country really is going down to Flushville.

People assume Ferry is one of these pathetic saps who tugs the forelock and would cut off his own balls just to hang with royalty, but I think he's secretly satirising the whole thing. You was right about Ricky Gervais tho.

Yes but do we really need the Ben Elton spangly jacket revival?

Yes but do we really need the Ben Elton spangly jacket revival?

Little bit of politics there.

Was "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting" supposed to be an oblique comment on the Glasgow Airport business?

Didn't she crash on a Saturday night/Sunday morning? This show gets better the more we unpack it.

Rod did "Sailing." Did he think it was a 25th anniversary Falklands concert?

My mum was in apoplexy about how Elton started it with "Your song", specifically "how wonderful life is, when you're in the world"

"She's dead! She's not in the world!!!"

Next thing I know you guys are going to tell me Anal Cunt showed up to play their specially written new song "You Died In A Car Crash."

Elton might have been singing to Bill and Hal.

Then again, Take That - "it's time that you came back for good." I'd be interested to see how they carry off that feat.

To be fair to Gervais he came on expecting to do 3 minutes and kept being told to fill cause Elton wasn't ready. He's not really a stand up so he wasn't sure what to do, had no standby material. I did like the fact the crowd basically bullied him into doing the dance despite his obv. embarassment.

Also, LOL'd at Gold Digger

In general WTFness: Tom Jones doing "I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor." Is this going to be the "Tie A Yellow Ribbon" de nos jours? When do we get the Val Doonican cover?

Bryan Ferry's "Slave to Love" as a reference to all Diana's unfortunate and obsessive affairs was a nice touch, too.

Joss Stone doing "Under Pressure" was questionable - "Pressure, pressing down on me." The steering wheel, right?

Dodi was quite a chunky chap.

RG *Always* gets to the "noo they makin me do tha dance" bit at these sort of occasions. At least he had his first song scheduled. And managed to get the last song from the back of his subcon.

The highlights but this morn had the *dance* again. He's going to be this gen's Wilson Keppel & Betty, by all accounts a funny act in general, but now only remembered for ... *ah*.

also, as (partly) said:

"I aint sayin' she's a gold digger.. But she aint goin with no poor ahem cough cough.."

I still want someone to do "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan" at one of these do's still.

Jordan, perhaps?

Now I wished I had seen it! I only caught Take That and a bit of Elton. And, sadly also, Ricky Gervais. Was it just me, but is he slowly turning plastic? Ready for Mme Tussaud's.

I certainly wanted him to get stuffed...

KW doing "Gold Digger" was kind of the greatest act of pop entryism ever.

Do people genuinely think Gervais was improvising and was embarrassed? He had an earpiece, why was he being prompted by some roadie with a bit of paper? Come on...

He certainly had every reason to feel embarrassed by his terrible performance.

But he does squirmy embarrassing "look at ME ME ME ME ME" stuff all the time. The fact that it's not funny is neither here nor there.

Do people genuinely think Gervais was improvising and was embarrassed? He had an earpiece, why was he being prompted by some roadie with a bit of paper? Come on...

I think people were too busy squirming in their seats.

Well, at live 8, he discovered his gift for improvising was nil.

This time, he went out with Two songs, one of which was basically retrieved from the back of his head and only funny if you'd seen DBowie do it in "Extras", one actually rehearsed song, and his gift for improv (still nil).

But also, five minutes longer than he had anything for.